Small businessnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 32 of 103, unchanged
Excel or Google Sheets
7Judge labels
0First choices
1Negative labels
5 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Excel or Google Sheets was named 4 times in Financial modeling and 2 other categories, where Microsoft Excel led with 14%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business34 of 106
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market25 of 77
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In financial modeling · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Excel or Google Sheets for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial modeling and scenario planning | Planning and analysis | 0% | 25 of 77 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Excel at 14% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Fixed asset accounting | Accounting and close | 0% | 92 of 107 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Sage Fixed Assets at 34% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| FP&A platforms | Planning and analysis | 0% | 35 of 74 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Planful at 20% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Excel or Google Sheets held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Financial modeling · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 42 → 24 of 75
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial modeling | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 42 → 25 of 77 |
| Fixed asset accounting | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 92 of 107, unchanged |
| FP&A platforms | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 35 of 74, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Excel or Google Sheets across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Excel or Google Sheets across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“For very tight budgets: Start with Excel or Google Sheets with templates.” MiniMax M2.5 · FP&A platforms · budget prompt · alternative
“Best for Maximum Flexibility on a $0 Budget: Excel or Google Sheets” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Financial modeling · budget prompt · alternative
“Most Affordable Option (Essentially Free): Excel or Google Sheets” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Financial modeling · budget prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Not ideal if you need strong audit controls or lots of assets” GPT-5.4 mini · Fixed asset accounting · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Excel or Google Sheets, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Excel or Google Sheets was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Excel or Google Sheets, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Excel or Google Sheets was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Excel or Google Sheets. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 6 of the 7 answers that named Excel or Google Sheets and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
g2.com5
capterra.com4
abacum.ai3
clockwork.ai3
drivetrain.ai3
itechguides.com3
checkthat.ai2
cubesoftware.com2
datarails.com2
farseer.com2
No domain is on file for Excel or Google Sheets, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Follow Excel or Google Sheets
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Excel is the company behind Excel or Google Sheets.ShowHide
The company
Excel is the company behind Excel or Google Sheets.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Excel
- Excel or shared spreadsheets, Excel spreadsheets, Excel templates
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Excel or Google Sheets's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Excel or Google Sheets, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Excel or Google Sheets by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Excel or Google Sheets is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Excel or Google Sheets, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.